A view from the Johnson Lake trailhead

I wrote yesterday’s post knowing that there would be a great opportunity for me to find motivation.  Yesterday we took a nice, long trip down to Seward – that’s 120 miles (more or less) each way.  Ostensibly, our goal was to visit the Seward Sea Life Center, which was great in its own right.

One thing I was hoping for, however, was to get that strike of inspiration back.  It kinda struck a few times – the pic to the right is a good example.  The clouds and sun creating something of a chiarascuro effect.  Look at it closer up (click on it) – it’s a fairly neat photo.  All the more impressive if you consider that it’s a 9-frame HDR.  The technique was similar to the one outlined here, except that it was completely hand-held.

After getting home and starting processing, I now realize that I let my sensor get beyond dirty.  It’ll take hours to recover most of the pics – this one is a lucky pic – the dirt is mostly obscured by the tones in the photo.

As you can guess, I’ll be writing about sensor cleaning soon enough.